Entertainment / Literature / Microcosm: The human body. Renaissance thinkers believed that the human body was a 'little universe' that reflected changes in the macrocosm, or greater universe. (cf. Macrocosm)
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Health / Tai Chi / Microcosmic Orbit: The energy circuit from the perineum up the back, around the head and back down. MORE
Health / Massage / Five-Element Shiatsu: This technique is based on classical Chinese medicine?€™s law of the five elements. The five-element system views the human body as a microcosm of the universe with the tides of energy and emotion MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Macrocosm: (Cf. Microcosm) The natural universe as a whole, including the biological realms of flora and fauna, weather, and celestial objects such as the sun, moon, and stars. See discussion under chain of bein MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Correspondences: An integral part of the medieval and Renaissance model of the universe known as the 'Chain of Being.' The idea was that different links on the Chain of Being were interconnected and had a sort of symp MORE
Entertainment / Literature / The Body Politic: The monarchial government, including all its citizens, its army, and its king. Political theory in the Elizabethan period thought of each kingdom as a 'body,' with the king functioning as its head. Ev MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Contextual Symbol: A unique or original symbol an author creates within the context of an individual work or an author's collected works. Examples include the Snopes family in Faulkner's collected works, who together fu MORE